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Just as we received God’s image through the reason of the mind (compare Genesis 1:26–27), so we experience our kinship with cattle through the affinity of the flesh.Although its form differs, its substance, drawn from the material of the elements, is one.Our flesh will indeed see eternity according to the merits of the rational soul: either miserable in suffering or glorious in rewards (Genesis 1:26–27).
Ut enim imaginem Dei mentis ratione suscepimus; ita communionem pecudum carnis affinitate sentimus; cuius licet sit forma diversa, est tamen de materia elementorum una substantia; pro rationabilis sane animi meritis aeternitatem visura, vel aerumnis miseram, vel praemiis gloriosam.